... Magazzù G, Greco L. Duration of exposure to
gluten and risk for autoimmune disorders in patients with
celiac disease. SIGEP Study Group for Autoimmune Disor-
ders in Celiac Disease. Gastroenterology ... Hepatology and Nutri-
tion. Guideline for the diagnosis and treatment ofceliac di-
sease in children: recommendations of the North American
Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and
Nutrition. ... Prevalence of
celiacdisease in a sample of Turkish children and adoles-
cents with type 1 diabetes mellitus. J Clin Gastroenterol
2006; 40: 655-7.
4. Tanure MG, Silva IN, Bahia M, et al. Prevalence of...
... was observed concerning MMP-9 and
ICAM-1.
The outcome of the PCA of the radical data, data
concerning the degree of arteriosclerotic diseaseand
some relevant clinical data are shown in Figure ... production and concentrations of
MCP-1, ICAM-1, MMP-9 and oxLDL, mean values for
all the OXANO concentrations measured during
clamping and reperfusion and for the markers sam-
pled before, during and ... values for MMP-9 and low values for
ICAM-1 were associated with high levels of free radi-
cals. Several correlations were found between the
values of MMP-9 and ICAM-1 and different clinical
variables....
... (Reeder and Brown 1996). Full understanding
of the forces that have shaped the archival repertoire, switching process,
and course of infection requires study of both specific immune recogni-
tion and ... determine the rise and fall of parasite vari-
ants over space and time. The distribution of parasite variants sets the
immune memory profiles of differenthosts,whichinturn shape the
landscape in which ... selection of antigenic variants and
the course of evolution in the parasite population.
Finally, I consider different ways to study the evolution of antigenic
variation. Experimental evolution of parasites...
... Igs found in the serum of celiac
disease patients.
Keywords: autoimmunity; celiac disease; transglutaminase;
epitope mapping; phage display.
Celiac disease (CD) is a genetic disease strongly linked ... Duration of
exposure to gluten and risk for autoimmune disorders in
patients with celiac disease. SIGEP Study Group for
Autoimmune Disorders in Celiac Disease. Gastroenterology 117,
297–303.
24. Nanda, ... N-terminus of the fragments.
Human sera and scFvs
Human sera were obtained from 24 untreated celiac disease
patients positive for anti-tTG and anti-endomysial Igs with
positive histological analysis of...
...
Signs, symptomsand conditions associated with coeliac disease
Box A. Offer serological testing to children and adults with any of the
following signs, symptomsand conditions
Signs andsymptoms ... with coeliac disease
2.4.1 Evidence review – signsandsymptoms
Recognition and assessment of coeliac disease can be difficult because of the
variety of presenting signsand symptoms.
The ... children and
adults and agreed an additional recommendation for children specifying
growth failure, delayed puberty and dental complications.
2.4 Signsandsymptomsof coeliac diseaseand
coexisting...
... forest formation SE of Brussels, the
Soignes forest (50° 45’ 00’’ N, 4° 25’ 30’’ E). There, oak stands con-
sist either of pure or mixed stands of Q. petraea and Q. robur L., or
of oak mixed with ... of tree XII was
the thinnest of all 12 trees studied and, in spite of a considerable
leaf loss, this oak showed no evidence of Agrilus-attack. Haack
and Acciavatti [10] reported that larvae of ... al.
inspection of the outer and inner bark revealed not only the pres-
ence of living adults of Agrilus in pupal cells, but also of larvae,
pupae and D-shaped emergence-holes. Photographs of the
characteristic...
... large-scale study of expression, function
and interactions of proteins [1]. Recent advances in the
field spawned miniaturized proteomics technologies
capable of parallel detection of thousands of different ... broaden our understanding of the underlying mechanisms ofand will further our ability to diagnose,
prognosticate and treat autoimmune disease.
Keywords: autoantibodies, autoimmune disease, proteomics, ... arrays
Review
Autoantibody profiling for the study and treatment of
autoimmune disease
Wolfgang Hueber
1
, Paul J Utz
1,3
, Lawrence Steinman
2,3
and William H Robinson
1,2,3
1
Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology...
... nucleosomes and α-actinin and (c) dsDNA and α-actininCorrelation between binding to (a) nucleosomes and double-stranded
DNA (dsDNA), (b) nucleosomes and α-actinin and (c) dsDNA and α-
actinin. ... associations between levels of both
anti-nucleosome and anti-α-actinin antibodies, levels of high-
avidity anti-dsDNA antibodies and markers of renal disease,
including an assessment of whether the patients ... instructions of the manufacturer [8].
Expression of results of enzyme-linked immunosorbent
assay tests
ODs from all of the assays were converted to absorbance
ratios (ARs) to standardise the data and...
... Ethical Review Board of
the Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan, and the
Institutional Review Boards of the Johns Hopkins Bloom-
berg School of Public Health and the University of
California, San ... Chicago, IL) using standard statistical tests for
comparison of means and proportions. Predictors of TB
symptoms and diagnoses were analysed using chi-squared
(dichotomous predictors) and univariate ... The
TB-suggestive symptomsof cough >2 weeks and ⁄ or haemoptysis were reported by 407 (31.3%) and
44(3.3%), respectively, with 39 participants reporting both symptoms. Of 413 participants...
... direct consequence of CKD and bone disease, and
cardiovascular disease (CVD) as a consequence of laboratory
abnormalities as well as due to direct consequences of CKD.
Bone diseaseand CVD are defined ... adults, and often are increased after
fracture.Inaddition,t-ALPandb-ALPcanbeelevatedinboth
primary and secondary HPT, osteomalacia, and in the presence
of bone metastasis and Paget’s disease.
The ... osteitis fibrosa and mild disease, and low in those with osteomalacia and adynamic bone disease. Mineralization is
abnormal in those with osteomalacia and mixed disease. AD, adynamic bone; OF, osteitis...
... at
least three of the RdRp recombinants (RM1, RM3, and
RM5) and four of the HSP70h recombinants (HM1, HM2,
HM4, and HM7) are genuine. As none of these recom-
binants were found in both of the trees ... of the disease.
Interestingly, all seven of these "shared" recombinants
were detected in the tree without CSD, C6, and one of the
trees with CSD (C3). Also, no HSP70h recombinants and
only ... sampled
from tree C5 (for RdRp Kst* = 0.15 and 0.16 for compar-
isons of C5 with C3 and C6 respectively; for HSP70h Kst*
= 0.042 and 0.051 for comparisons of C5 with C3 and C6
respectively). Unlike the...